Fumio Yasuda and Theo Bleckmann have put new faces on the world famous songs of Mother Goose. Mother Goose (published for the first time by Charles Perrault under the French title »Contes de ma mère l’Oye« in the late 17th century) is a literary character of nursery rhymes and fairy tales, which are specially but not only known in the United States and the Commonwealth countries in the present time. Often Mother Goose is portrayed as an old woman farmer or as a goose with a cap. The Mother Goose's Melodies are entertaining, humorous verses, learning rhymes, and sometimes even nonsensical poems for children and adults.

As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to express the needs and desires of a new country. Children’s literature was one of the means through which this new voice found expression.